View of the Kistna Anicut from the Sitanagaram Quarries, Vijayawada (Bezwada). Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the top of the dam or anicut across the Krishna River. Signed in the negative Ross Thompson Lt R.E. 1863.
Studio portrait of a Hindu ascetic wearing an iron collar. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Cabinet portrait size, on photographer's signed mount. Pencilled note on bottom of mount reads: 'Pundarum with iron collar.' For a hand-coloured copy of this photograph, see Photo 34 (4). The coloured print has a note on the reverse reading: 'A Sumuyasi or Gosa...
Non-photographic: watercolour sketch by a Punjab artist of a cotton spinning wheel and spindle.
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Shown at the Delhi Exhibition of 1872. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 227, catalogue no. 189 (i).